Packaging Development Co-Op

Description

Boehringer Ingelheim is currently seeking a talented and innovative 2024 Spring Co-Op candidate to join our Animal Health Formulation Development department located at our North Brunswick, NJ facility. As a Co-Op, you will help design and execute plastic packaging material characterization and compatibility experiments to accelerate research and development projects.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Contribute to formulation development projects in needs of packaging materials recommendation.  
• Design & conduct polymeric packaging material characterization and packaging compatibility study.
• Responsible for data evaluation, data analysis and conclude next steps to solving problems.
• Collaborate with formulation scientist on new formulation and primary packaging development.

Requirements

• Must be a current undergraduate, graduate or advanced degree student in good academic standing.
• Student must be enrolled at a college or university for the duration of the internship.
• Overall cumulative minimum GPA from last completed quarter/semester 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) preferred.
• Major or minor in related field of internship.
• Undergraduate students must have completed at least 12 credit hours at current college or university.
• Graduate and advanced degree students must have completed at least 9 credit hours at current college or university.

Eligibility Requirements:  

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

• BS, MS or PhD in polymer science, packaging science, material science or related program.
• Previous plastic packaging or plastic industry experience is preferred.
• Hands on experience in polymeric material characterization including DMA, Rheology, FTIR, DSC, Instron and microscopy.
• Good technical skills and judgement with training in laboratory safety and procedures.
• Proficient in Word/Excel/PowerPoint.
• Good communication skills in both written and verbal.